Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 16:59:41 +1100 From: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: SOFTUPDATES hangs keyboard Message-ID: <199901040559.QAA25674@lightning.itga.com.au>
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This is a multipart MIME message. --==_Exmh_-10978362240 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Current as at 199901040100UTC (but has happened since 3.0R when I started on 3.0). HP KAYAK XA (P-II 400, BX Mboard, Matrox G200 AGP, PS/2 mouse, HP keyboard with a bunch of extra buttons.) This is happening quite consistently. - boot -s, turn softupdates on on (unmounted) /var. - ^D to boot multi-user, system comes up. - Alt-F2 to switch to second vt - log in as root >From this point on, the keyboard stops working - perhaps because this is the first time a write to /var occurs? - Hitting any "normal" key has no effect at all. - Alt-Fn will swap to another vt - after a bunch of keypresses (dunno if it is the number of 'normal" keys or the number of Alt-Fn presses), then beahviour changes again: - normal keys still to nothing - Alt-Fn keys now elicit a beep just like DOS does when the KB buffer is full. - At this point, the only solution is C-A-Del, boot single user, run fsck on the /var partition (usually somewhat mangled), turn off soft updates, ^D to start up, and the system is fine. Very repeatable, very clearly a SOFTUPDATES problem. Any hints about how I can help fix this? Config file attached. --==_Exmh_-10978362240 Content-Type: text/plain ; name="Hellcat"; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: Hellcat Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Hellcat" # # GENERIC -- Generic machine with WD/AHx/NCR/BTx family disks # # For more information read the handbook part System Administration -> # Configuring the FreeBSD Kernel -> The Configuration File. # The handbook is available in /usr/share/doc/handbook or online as # latest version from the FreeBSD World Wide Web server # <URL:http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/>; # # An exhaustive list of options and more detailed explanations of the # device lines is present in the ./LINT configuration file. If you are # in doubt as to the purpose or necessity of a line, check first in LINT. # # $Id: GENERIC,v 1.125 1998/10/16 01:30:11 obrien Exp $ machine "i386" cpu "I686_CPU" ident Hellcat maxusers 32 options "NO_F00F_HACK" # Got a read P2!! #options MATH_EMULATE #Support for x87 emulation options INET #InterNETworking options FFS #Berkeley Fast Filesystem options FFS_ROOT #FFS usable as root device [keep this!] options MFS #Memory Filesystem #options MFS_ROOT #MFS usable as root device, "MFS" req'ed options NFS #Network Filesystem #options NFS_ROOT #NFS usable as root device, "NFS" req'ed options MSDOSFS #MSDOS Filesystem options "CD9660" #ISO 9660 Filesystem options "CD9660_ROOT" #CD-ROM usable as root. "CD9660" req'ed options PROCFS #Process filesystem options "COMPAT_43" #Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!] options SCSI_DELAY=15000 #Be pessimistic about Joe SCSI device options UCONSOLE #Allow users to grab the console options FAILSAFE #Be conservative options USERCONFIG #boot -c editor options VISUAL_USERCONFIG #visual boot -c editor options SOFTUPDATES config kernel root on wd0 controller isa0 #controller eisa0 controller pci0 controller pnp0 controller fdc0 at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2 vector fdintr disk fd0 at fdc0 drive 0 #disk fd1 at fdc0 drive 1 # Unless you know very well what you're doing, leave ft0 at drive 2, or # remove the line entirely if you don't need it. Trying to configure # it on another unit might cause surprises, see PR kern/7176. #tape ft0 at fdc0 drive 2 options "CMD640" # work around CMD640 chip deficiency controller wdc0 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 vector wdintr disk wd0 at wdc0 drive 0 #disk wd1 at wdc0 drive 1 controller wdc1 at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 vector wdintr #disk wd2 at wdc1 drive 0 #disk wd3 at wdc1 drive 1 options ATAPI #Enable ATAPI support for IDE bus options ATAPI_STATIC #Don't do it as an LKM device wcd0 #IDE CD-ROM #device wfd0 #IDE Floppy (e.g. LS-120) # syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console device sc0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" conflicts tty irq 1 vector scintr options MAXCONS=4 # Enable this and PCVT_FREEBSD for pcvt vt220 compatible console driver #device vt0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" conflicts tty irq 1 vector pcrint #options XSERVER # support for X server #options FAT_CURSOR # start with block cursor # If you have a ThinkPAD, uncomment this along with the rest of the PCVT lines #options PCVT_SCANSET=2 # IBM keyboards are non-std device npx0 at isa? port "IO_NPX" irq 13 vector npxintr device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" flags 0x10 tty irq 4 vector siointr device sio1 at isa? port "IO_COM2" tty irq 3 vector siointr #device sio2 at isa? disable port "IO_COM3" tty irq 5 vector siointr #device sio3 at isa? disable port "IO_COM4" tty irq 9 vector siointr device lpt0 at isa? port? tty irq 7 vector lptintr device psm0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" conflicts tty irq 12 vector psmintr # Order is important here due to intrusive probes, do *not* alphabetize # this list of network interfaces until the probes have been fixed. # Right now it appears that the ie0 must be probed before ep0. See # revision 1.20 of this file. device xl0 pseudo-device loop pseudo-device ether #pseudo-device sl 1 #pseudo-device ppp 1 pseudo-device tun 1 pseudo-device pty 64 pseudo-device gzip # Exec gzipped a.out's # KTRACE enables the system-call tracing facility ktrace(2). # This adds 4 KB bloat to your kernel, and slightly increases # the costs of each syscall. options KTRACE #kernel tracing # This provides support for System V shared memory. # (used for XF86 server) options SYSVSHM # The `bpfilter' pseudo-device enables the Berkeley Packet Filter. Be # aware of the legal and administrative consequences of enabling this # option. The number of devices determines the maximum number of # simultaneous BPF clients programs runnable. pseudo-device bpfilter 4 #Berkeley packet filter #device pcm0 at isa? port 0x530 tty irq 5 drq 0 flags 0x13 vector pcmintr device pcm0 at isa? port 0x220 tty irq 10 drq 1 flags 0x0 vector pcmintr # joy: joystick device joy0 at isa? port "IO_GAME" --==_Exmh_-10978362240-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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